death

"Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead."

"Everyone sounded the same when they died."

"When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other."

"Death should take me while I am in the mood."

"Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls."

"The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains."

"I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)"

"I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call."

"Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave."

"When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)"

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death."

"Even in the grave, all is not lost."

"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take."

"I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!"And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."

"One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death."

"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?"

"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."